Internationalism in Children's Series

1. Introduction: Stepping Out into the World: Series and Internationalism; Karen Sands-O'Connor PART I: NINETEENTH CENTURY SERIES GO ABROAD 2. Young Americans Abroad: Jacob Abbott's Rollo on the Grand Tour and Nineteenth-Century Travel Books; Chris Nesmith 3. Our Girls in the Family of Nations: Girls' Culture and Empire in Victorian Girls' Magazines; Janis Dawson PART II: SYNDICATES, EMPIRES, AND POLITICS 4. The Stratemeyer Chums Have Fun in the Caribbean: America and Empire in Children's Series; Karen Sands-O'Connor 5. 'A Really Big Theme': Americanization and World Peace—Internationalism and/as Nationalism in Lucy Fitch Perkins's Twins Series; Jani L. Barker 6. 'A Bit of Life Actually Lived in a Foreign Land': Internationalism as World Friendship in Children's Series; Marietta A. Frank 7. Lost Cities: Generic Conventions, Hidden Places, and Primitivism in Juvenile Series Mysteries; Michael G. Cornelius 8. ''But why are you so foreign?'': Blyton and Blighty; David Rudd PART III: TRANSLATING HISTORIES AND CULTURES 9. 'Universal Republic of Children?': 'Other' Children in Dogan Kardes Children's Periodical; Deniz Arzuk 10. Wizard in Translation: Linguistic and Cultural Concerns in Harry Potter; Hilary Brewster 11. ''Hungry Ghosts'': Kirsty Murray's Irish-Australian Children of the Wind Series; Charlotte Beyer 12. Building Bridges to Intercultural Understanding: The Other in Contemporary Irish Children's Literature; Patricia Kennon Index